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filter

[fil-ter] / ˈfɪl tər /


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Wall Street analysts are pessimistic on Lululemon, through the filter of their usually rose-colored glasses.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

Messi trusts the people who run them, some of them with him since his early days at Barcelona, and a thorough filter means he only gets offered and chooses what he is comfortable with.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Meta has denied the allegations in the lawsuit and says it has taken “steps to filter this data to help remove identifying information and to protect people’s privacy.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Energy indirectly impacts core inflation by affecting the cost of production and transportation, which can filter through into prices of goods and services.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Through a solar telescope equipped with a filter admitting only the red light emitted by hot hydrogen gas, the sunspots appear dark.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

“No staff filters, no bureaucratic dilution — a direct line to the secretary,” Hegseth said.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

It will also strengthen age verification, ban beauty filters for teenagers, and offer young users a non-personalized content feed.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

In practical terms, the test confirmed that ground teams can remotely control the instrument's various systems, including movable mechanisms that position its masks, color filters, lenses, and prisms.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

Children’s products, water filters and power tools also compete on safety.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

She has to remain in the air lock until the filters have a chance to purify the foreign air.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

From there, medbeds filtered out to the rest of the secret-space-program community and to other alternative subcultures, including the New Age world.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

“They came through the stereo, speaking loudly into my ear, filtered through the added beauty of a child’s brain taking that all in.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

Tim Andrews said the transplant gave him "hope" and spared him months of needing to go to hospital to have his blood filtered by a dialysis machine.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Swiss GDP last contracted in the third quarter of 2025, as the first round of U.S. tariffs filtered through the economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

As word filtered through the building that she'd arrived, more and more of them made their way to the picnic tables outside and hovered around Lindsey.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

I realized I was nervous and not filtering my words very well.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

It holds huge amounts of water, slowing rain as it moves downhill, reducing flooding and filtering out sediment before it reaches the reservoir.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Yet when it comes to the ways AI is filtering into Americans’ jobs, many workers are looking at a trickle so far, rather than a flood.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

On Friday, attention turns to August consumer price figures for the Tokyo metropolitan area that will indicate if higher oil prices triggered by the Middle East conflict are filtering through to broader consumer costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Foaly boosted the audio signal, filtering out background noise.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer




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